Flavio Esposito, Ph.D.

Publications

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Refereed Conference Publications

  • Lorenzo Pappone, Alessio Sacco, and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Mutant: Learning Congestion Control from Existing Protocols via Online Reinforcement Learning". in Proc. of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, April 2025. Bibtex PDF

  • Pascal Sikorski, Kaleb Yu, Lucy Billadeau, Flavio Esposito, Hadi AliAkbarpour, and Madi Babaiasl, ‘‘Improving Robotic Arms through Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Edge Computing,” In Proc. of the International Conference on Mechatronics, Control and Robotics (ICMCR), Singapore, Feb. 2025 (to appear). Bibtex

  • Pascal Sikorski, Leendert Schrader, Kaleb Yu, Lucy Billadeau, Jinka Meenakshi, Naveena Mutharasan, Flavio Esposito, H. AliAkbarpour, and M. Babaiasl, ‘‘Deployment of NLP and LLM Techniques to Control Mobile Robots at the Edge: A Case Study Using GPT-4-Turbo and LLaMA 2," in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics, Control and Robotics (ICMCR), Singapore, Feb. 2025, (to appear). Bibtex Arxiv

  • Lorenzo Pappone, Cristian Zilli, Alessio Sacco, and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘Inferring fine-grained traffic matrices via distributed deep residual networks," in Proceedings of the 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024. Bibtex

  • Emilio Paolini, Andrea Pinto, Luca Valcarenghi, Nicola Andriolli, Luca Maggiani, and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘Efficient distributed learning over lossy wireless networks," in Proceedings of the 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024 Bibtex

  • Chiara Camerota, Lorenzo Pappone, Tommaso Pecorella, and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘Addressing data security in IoT: minimum sample size and denoising diffusion models for improved malware detection," in Proceedings of the 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024 Bibtex

  • Elizabeth Liri, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Koushik Kar, and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Sensing Together: Cooperative Task Adaptation and Scheduling for IoT-Nets using Renewable Energy." Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Seoul, Korea (South), September 22, 2024. Bibtex

  • Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto, ‘‘Routing with ART: Adaptive Routing for P4 Switches With In-Network Decision Trees," in Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Next-Generation Networking and Internet (Globecom 2024 NGNI), Cape Town, South Africa, Dec. 2024. Bibtex

  • Xu Tao, Jackson Butcher, Simone Silvestri, and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘iCrop: Enabling High-Precision Crop Disease Detection via LoRa Technology". In Proc. of The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2024) July 29 - 31, 2024, Big Island, Hawaii, USA (invited paper). Bibtex

  • Cristian Zilli, Alessio Sacco, Doriana Monaco, Okwudilichukwu Okafor, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto, ‘‘Inferring Visibility of Internet Traffic Matrices Using eXplainable AI," NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, May 2024, doi: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10575173. Bibtex

  • Nurzaman Ahmed, Flavio Esposito, and Nadia Shakoor. ‘‘Bridging IoT Education Through Activities: A Game-Oriented Approach with Real-time Data Visualization" In Proc. of IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference 2024. Princeton, NJ. March 9th, 2024. Bibtex

  • Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘ROAR: Routing Packets in P4 Switches with Multi-Agent Decision Logic. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN). Stockholm, Sweden. May 2024. Bibtex

  • Felipe Lopes, Flavio Esposito, and Vasit Sagan. ‘‘PlantPlotGAN: A Physics-Informed Generative Adversarial Network for Plant Disease Prediction" In Proc. of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2023, Waikoloa, HI, USA, January 2-7, 2023. Bibtex

  • Nurzaman Ahmed, Flavio Esposito, Okwudilichukwu Okafor, and Nadia Shakoor, ‘‘SoftFarmNet: Reconfigurable Wi-Fi HaLow Networks for Precision Agriculture", In Proc. of 2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet2023), Nov 2023; Hoboken, NJ, USA. Bibtex

  • Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Enrico Alberti, Guido Marchetto, and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘RLVNA: A Platform for Experimenting with Virtual Networks Adaptation over Public Testbeds", in Proc. of 2023 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communication and Networking (IEEE MeditCom), Sept 6th, 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Antonino Angi, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto, ‘‘HINT: Supporting Congestion Control Decisions with P4-driven In-Band Network Telemetry," 2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2023, pp. 83-88, doi: 10.1109/HPSR57248.2023.10147977. Bibtex

  • Doriana Monaco, Alessio Sacco, Enrico Alberti, Guido Marchetto, and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘A Collaborative and Distributed Learning-Based Solution to Autonomously Plan Computer Networks", in Proc. of 26th IEEE Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2023), March 2023, Paris, France. Bibtex

  • Amit Samanta, Flavio Esposito, and Tri Gia Nguyen ‘‘ASAP: Adaptive and Scalable Microservice Provisioning for Edge-IoT Networks", In Proc. of 18th IEEE Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2023). Jan 29th, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. Bibtex

  • Sai Shreyas Bhavanasi, Lorenzo Pappone, and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘Routing with Graph Convolutional Networks and Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning". In Proc. of 2022 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN’22); 14 Nov 2022. Phoenix, AZ, USA. Bibtex

  • Andrea Pinto, Giuseppe Santaromita, Claudio Fiandrino, Domenico Giustiniano, and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘Characterizing Location Management Function Performance in 5G Core Networks". In Proc. of 2022 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN’22); 14 Nov 2022. Phoenix, AZ, USA. Bibtex Awarded Best Student Paper.

  • Roberto Amoroso, Lorenzo Pappone, and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘A Federated Learning Approach to Traffic Matrix Estimation using Super-resolution Technique." In proc. ofIEEE 20th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, (CCNC 2023). Jan 8th, 2023. Las Vegas, USA. (short paper) Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Hide and Seek: Traffic Matrix Completion and Inference Using Hidden Information", In proc. of IEEE 20th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, (CCNC 2023). Jan 8th, 2023. Las Vegas, USA. Bibtex

  • Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto and Alexander Clemm. ‘‘Howdah: Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4". In proc. of 18th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2022); Oct 30th, Thessaloniki, Greece. Bibtex.

  • Wilfredo Robinson, Flavio Esposito, and Maria Zuluaga. ‘‘DTS: A Simulator to Estimate the Training Time of Distributed Deep Neural Networks", In Proc. of 30th International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOT 2022). Oct 18-20, Nice, France. Bibtex

  • Andy Florian Irakoze, Flavio Esposito, Andrew Schranck, and Lee Voth-Gaeddert. ‘‘A Community Water System Mapping (CWSMap) Platform for Supporting Rural Water Operators". In Proc. of 2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC). Santa Clara, CA, 8-11 Sept, 2022. Bibtex

  • Hossein Ahmadvand, Tooska Dargahi, Fouzhan Foroutan, Princewill Okorie and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Big Data Processing at the Edge with Data Skew Aware Resource Allocation." In proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN’21). Nov 2021. Virtual event. Bibtex

  • Valeria Turina, Zongshun Zhang, Flavio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta. ‘‘Federated or Split? A Performance and Privacy Analysis of Hybrid Split and Federated Learning Architectures". In proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2021). Sept. 5-10, 2021, Virtual event. Bibtex

  • Hunter Park and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Congestion-Aware Routing via Reinforcement Learning with Graph Convolutional Networks", in Proc. of IEEE 12th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF), 2021. Coimbra, Portugal. Oct 2021. Virtual Conference. Bibtex

  • Aman Khalid, Flavio Esposito, Alessio Sacco, and Steven C. Smart. ‘‘EdgeEcho: An Architecture for Echocardiology at the Edge". In IEEE 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2021). Izmir, Turkey 25-29 October, 2021; (short paper). Bibtex

  • Sadiya Ahmad, Flavio Esposito and Estefania Coronado. ‘‘Energy-aware Coflow Scheduling for Sustainable Workload Management". In IEEE 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2021). Izmir, Turkey 25-29 October, 2021; (short paper). Bibtex

  • E.S. Sagatov, S. Mayhoub, A.M. Sukhov, F. Esposito and P. Calyam. ‘‘Proactive Detection for Countermeasures on Port Scanning based Attacks". In IEEE 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2021). Izmir, Turkey 25-29 October, 2021; (short paper). Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Matteo Flocco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Owl: Congestion Control with Partially Invisible Networks via Reinforcement Learning", In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2021). May 10-13, Virtual Conference. Bibtex

  • Haneen Alfauri and Flavio Esposito. A Distributed Consensus Protocol for Sustainable Federated Learning. 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2021). Tokyo, Japan, June 2021. Bibtex

  • Aziza Alzadjali, Maria Mushtaq, Flavio Esposito, Claudio Fiandrino and Jitender Singh Deogun. ‘‘OctoMap: Supporting Service Function Chaining via Supervised Learning and Online Contextual Bandit". In 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2021) Tokyo, Japan, June 2021. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto, ‘‘On Control and Data Plane Programmability for Data-Driven Networking". In 2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (IEEE HPSR’21) Invited Paper. Paris, France, June 2021. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Resource Inference for Task Migration in Challenged Edge Networks with RITMO". In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet) 9-11 November 2020. Virtual Conference. Bibtex

  • Aman Khalid and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Optimized Cuckoo Filters for Efficient Distributed SDN and NFV Applications". In Proc. of 2020 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN 2020). Virtual Event. November 2020. Bibtex

  • Aziza Al Zadjali, Flavio Esposito and Jitender Deogun. ‘‘A Contextual Bi-armed Bandit Approach for MPTCP Path Management in Heterogenous LTE and WiFi Edge Networks" in Proc. of the Fifth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (ACM/IEEE SEC 2020). San Jose CA, November 11-13, 2020. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘A Federated Learning Approach to Routing in Challenged SDN-Enabled Edge Networks". In Proc. of IEEE NetSoft 2020. Jun 29th - Jul 3rd, 2020, Ghent, Belgium. Youtube Presentation by Alessio Sacco. Bibtex

  • Michele Berno, Flavio Esposito, Michele Rossi. ‘‘Elastic Function Chain Control for Edge Networks under Reconfiguration Delay and QoS Requirements". In Proc. of IEEE 8th International Conference on Mobile Cloud (MobileCloud 2020). April 14-16, 2020, Oxford, UK. Best Paper Award.
    Bibtex. Presentation by M. Berno.

  • John Pasquesi, Flavio Esposito, Gianluca Davoli and Jenna Gorlewicz, ‘‘Exploring Vibration-Defined Networking," 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN, 2020, pp.r1-2, doi: 10.1109/LANMAN49260.2020.9153220. Bibtex

  • Davide Cecchinato, Michele Berno, Flavio Esposito, Michele Rossi. ‘‘Allocation of Computing Tasks in Distributed MAC Servers Co-powered By Renewable Sources and the Power Grid". In IEEE 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020). May 4-8, Barcellona, Spain. Bibtex

  • Waqar Muhammad, Flavio Esposito, Sagar C. Rajashekar and Srikanth Gururajan, ‘‘Vocal Intent Programmability for UAS in Disaster Scenarios", In Proc. of 2020 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2020-0736), Jan 06-10, 2020, Orlando, Florida. https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0736

  • Rajashekar, S.C., Gururajan, S., Esposito, F., Ferry, D., ‘‘Reconfigurable swarms and multi-user, cooperative UAS flights through a virtual reality interface", In Proc. of 2020 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2020-0737), Jan 06-10, 2020, Orlando, Florida.

  • Roberto Coral, Flavio Esposito and Jeremiah Weinstock“. ‘‘Don't Go There: A Zero-Permission Geofencing App to Alleviate Gambling Disorders”. In IEEE 17th Annual Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC 2020). Las Vegas, USA. Jan 2020. bibtex

  • Gianluca Davoli, Flavio Esposito and Walter Cerroni. ‘‘A Network Management Protocol for Sonification of Software-Defined Infrastructures", In Proc. of The 5th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (IEEE NFV-SDN 2019). Dallas, TX, 12-14 Nov, 2019.

  • Chiara Contoli, Fabio Palumbo, Flavio Esposito, Franco Callegati and Antonio Pescape’. ‘‘Flock: A Live Migration Protocol for SDN Controllers". In Proc. of The 5th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (IEEE NFV-SDN 2019). Dallas, TX, 12-14 Nov, 2019. Best Fast-track Paper Award.

  • Alessandro Gaballo, Matteo Flocco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto. ADELE: An Architecture for Steering Traffic and Computations via Deep Learning in Challenged Edge Networks. In Proc. of 4th IEEE International Conference on Computing Communication and Security (ICCCS 2019). October 10-12, 2019 Rome, Italy. Invited Paper. Bibtex]

  • Alessandro Gaballo, Matteo Flocco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Traffic Steering via Deep Learning in Challenged Edge Networks". In Proc. of 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management (IEEE CNSM), Halifax, Canada, Oct 21-25, 2019 (short paper).

  • Andrej Cvetkovski and Flavio Esposito, The Password Literacy in North Macedonia: A Case Study. In Proc. of ACM Central European Cybersecurity Conference (CECC ’19). Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Princewill Okorie and Guido Marchetto.‘‘LiveMicro: An Edge Computing System for Collaborative Telepathology" in Proc. of The 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge ’19), July 9th, Renton, WA. Bibtex

  • Ekaterina Holdener, Flavio Esposito and Dmitri Chemodanov. ‘‘EVA: An Evolutionary Architecture for Network Virtualization". In Proc. of ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’19), July 13–17, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic. Bibtex

  • Lorenzo Mucchi, Francesca Nizzi, Tommaso Pecorella, Romano Fantacci and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Benefits of Physical Layer Security to Cryptography: Tradeoff and Applications". In IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom). 3-6 June 2019, Sochi, Russia. Bibtex

  • Alessio Scalingi, Flavio Esposito, Waqar Muhammad and Antonio Pescape’.‘‘Scalable Provisioning of Virtual Network Functions via Supervised Learning". In IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). 24-28 June 2019, Paris, France. Bibtex

  • Xu Tao, Flavio Esposito, Alessio Sacco and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘A Policy-Based Architecture for Container Migration in Software Defined Infrastructures." In IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). Short paper. 24-28 June 2019, Paris, France. Bibtex

  • Amit Samanta, Yong Li and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Battle of Microservices: Towards Latency-Optimal Heuristic Scheduling for Edge Computing." In IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). Short paper. 24-28 June 2019, Paris, France. Bibtex

  • Gabriele Castellano, Flavio Esposito and Fulvio Risso.
    ‘‘A Distributed Orchestration Algorithm for Edge Computing Resources with Guarantees." In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019) 29 Apr - 2 May 2019. Paris, France. Bibtex

  • Dmitrii Chemodanov, Prasad Calyam and Flavio Esposito
    ‘‘A Near Optimal Reliable Composition Approach for Geo-Distributed Latency-Sensitive Service Chains." In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019) 29 Apr - 2 May 2019. Paris, France. Bibtex

  • Mary Hogan and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Music-Defined Networking". In 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2018). Nov 15-16, 2018 - Redmond, Washington, USA. Download PDF  [PDF] bibtex

International Media Coverage

ACM TechNews; IEEE-MUSB.org; InnovationToronto.com; ScienceDaily.com; f6ingenieurs.ch (in French); ecnmag.com; BrightSurf.com; ViralPearl.com; Eurekalert.org; SLU News; NewMindJournal.com (in Spanish) Deutschlandradio deutschlandfunk.de; Podcast (in German)

  • Flavio Esposito, Jiayi Wang, Chiara Contoli, Gianluca Davoli, Walter Cerroni and Franco Callegati.
    ‘‘A Behavior-Driven Approach to Intent Specification for Software-Defined Infrastructure Management" In IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN 2018); 27-29 Nov 2018 - Verona, Italy. Runner-up best paper award Bibtex

  • Debajyoti Bera, Flavio Esposito and Meghana Pendyala.
    ‘‘Maximal Labelled-Clique and Click-Biclique Problems for Networked Community Detection." In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018) 9-13 December 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  • Andrea Melis, Davide Berardi, Chiara Contoli, Franco Callegati, Flavio Esposito and Marco Prandini. “A Policy Checker Approach for Secure Industrial SDN”. In 2nd Cyber Security In Networking Conference (CSNET 2018), Paris, France, Oct 2018.

  • Nabeel Akhtar, Ibrahim Matta, Ali Raza, Leonardo Goratti, Torsten Braun and Flavio Esposito,
    ‘‘Virtual Function Placement and Traffic Steering over 5G Multi-Technology Networks" In Proc. of IEEE 4th Conf. on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018), Montreal, Canada. June 25-29, 2018.

  • Mary Hogan and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘Stochastic Delay Forecasts for Edge Traffic Engineering via Bayesian Networks"; In IEEE The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2017), Boston, MA, Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2017 (short paper). Bibtex

  • D. Chemodanov, P. Calyam, F. Esposito and A. Sukhov
    A General Constrained Shortest Path Approach for Virtual Path Embedding
    In: Proc. of the 22nd IEEE Inter. Symp. on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2016), June 13-15, 2016, Rome, Italy. [arXiv]

  • F. Esposito and W. Cerroni.
    GeoMig: Online Multiple VM Live Migration.
    In: Proc. of 3rd IEEE Symposium on Software Defined Systems (SDS’2016),
    in conjunction with the IEEE Int. Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016),
    Berlin, Germany 4-8 April 2016.
    Download PDF  [PDF]

  • F. Esposito and W. Cerroni. ‘‘Integrating Peer and Piece Selection in Content Distribution Networks." In: Proc. of IEEE Global Comm. Conf. (GLOBECOM ’15), San Diego, CA, 6-10 Dec 2015. Bibtex

  • F. Esposito and F. Chiti.
    Distributed Consensus-based Auctions for Wireless Virtual Network Embedding.
    In: Proc. of IEEE Internat. Conf. on Communication (ICC ’15), London, UK, 8-12 June 2015.
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  • F. Esposito, D. Di Paola and I. Matta.
    A General Distributed Approach to Slice Embedding with Guarantees.
    In Proc. of IFIP Networking 2013, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 22-24 May, 2013.
    Best IFIP OMM Award. Download PDF  [PDF]

  • F. Esposito and I. Matta. PreDA: Predicate Routing for DTN Architectures over MANET.
    In: Proc. of IEEE Global Communication Conf. (GLOBECOM ’09), Honolulu, HI, 30 Nov - 4 Dec 2009.
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  • F. Esposito, I. Matta, P. Michiardi, N. Mitsutake and D. Carra,
    Seed Scheduling for Peer-to-Peer Networks.
    In: Proc. of The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Cambridge, MA, July 2009.
    Download PDF  [PDF]

  • F. Esposito, F. Chiti and R. Fantacci.
    Voice and Data Traffic Classes Management for Heterogeneous Networks Enabled by Mobile Phones, In: Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, April 2006.

  • F. Esposito, F. Chiti, R. Fantacci J. Sun and S. Hosio.
    Agent Based Adaptive Management of Non-Homogeneous Connectivity Resources,
    In: Proc. of IEEE International Conf. on Comm. (ICC ’06), June 2006.

  • F.Esposito, F. Chiti, J. Sun, S. Hosio and R. Fantacci,
    Non-Homogeneous Connectivity Management for GPRS and Bluetooth Enabled Networks.
    In. International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2005), Dec 2005.

Referred Journal Publications

  • L. Pappone, A. Sacco, and F. Esposito, ‘‘Estimation of Traffic Matrices via Super-Resolution and Federated Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Special Issue on Reliable Networks, accepted for publication, Dec 2024 (to appear).

  • A. Tsutsumi, C. Camerota, F. Esposito, S. Park, T. Taylor, and S. Miyata, “Forecasting Pediatric Trauma Volumes: Insights from a Retrospective Study Using Machine Learning,” Journal of Surgical Research (Elsevier), Accepted on Dec 10, 2024. (in press).Bibtex

  • Silva, F. S. D., Lima, M. P., Almeida, T. F., Santos, C. F., Corujo, D., Neto, A. V., and Esposito, F.. A Survey of Machine Learning on 5G Handover Decision: A Taxonomy of the State of the Art, Open Issues, and Research Directions. IEEE Access. Accepted on July 27, 2024. Bibtex

  • Owoeye, Oluwatoyosi B. A.; Breitbach, Anthony; Esposito, Flavio; Nguyen, Natania; Bender, Amy M.; Neme, Jamil R. ‘‘Snooze it or Lose it: Understanding Sleep Disturbance and Injuries in Soccer and Basketball Student-Athletes." Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. July 9, 2024.
    DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000001250 Article Bibtex

  • Sagan, Vasit, Roberto Coral, Sourav Bhadra, Haireti Alifu, Omar Al Akkad, Aviskar Giri, and Flavio Esposito. 2024. ‘‘Hyperfidelis: A Software Toolkit to Empower Precision Agriculture with GeoAI" Remote Sensing 16, no. 9: 1584. Doi: 10.3390/rs16091584 Bibtex

  • Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto, and Alexander Clemm. ‘‘NAIL: A Network Management Architecture for Deploying Intent into Programmable Switches" in IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag). Accepted on Nov 1st, 2023. Impact Factor (2023): 11.2. Bibtex

  • Zongshun Zhang, Andrea Pinto, Valeria Turina, Flavio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta.; ‘‘Privacy and Efficiency of Communications in Federated Split Learning" In IEEE Transactions on Big Data, May 2023; doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2023.3280405 Bibtex

  • A. Sacco, A. Angi, G. Marchetto and F. Esposito, “P4FL: An Architecture for Federating Learning with In-Network Processing,” in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3318109. September 2023. Bibtex

  • Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto, and Alexander Clemm; ‘‘Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4 with Howdah"; in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, July, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2023.3299729. Online ISSN: 1932-4537. Bibtex

  • Sai Shareyas Bhavanasi, Lorenzo Pappone, and Flavio Esposito; ‘‘Dealing with Changes: Resilient Routing via Graph Neural Networks and Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning"; in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Accepted on May, 2023. DOI:10.1109/TNSM.2023.3287936. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto, ‘‘Completing and Predicting Internet Traffic Matrices Using Adversarial Autoencoders and Hidden Markov Models", in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Accepted on Apr, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2023.3270166 Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Matteo Flocco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto, ‘‘Partially Oblivious Congestion Control for the Internet via Reinforcement Learning", in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Accepted on Oct 13th, 2022. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto, ‘‘Restoring Application Traffic of Latency-Sensitive Networked Systems Using Adversarial Autoencoders," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 2521-2535, Sept. 2022, Special issue on Recent Advances in the Design and Management of Reliable Communication Networks; doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2022.3192305. Bibtex

  • Owoeye, O.B.A.; Neme, J.R.; Buchanan, P.; Esposito, F.; Breitbach, A.P. Absence of Injury Is Not Absence of Pain: Prevalence of Preseason Musculoskeletal Pain and Associated Factors in Collegiate Soccer and Basketball Student Athletes. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 9128. Doi:10.3390/ijerph19159128. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto and Paolo Montuschi. ‘‘A Self-Learning Strategy for Task Offloading in UAV Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Accepted on Jan. 11, 2022. ISSN: 1939-9359; doi: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3144654
    Impact factor 2021: 5.379. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Resource Inference for Sustainable and Responsive Task Offloading in Challenged Edge Networks". In Proc. of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking as a Special Issue - Green Internet of Things: Challenges and Future Opportunities. TGCN-SI-GIoT-20-0029.R1. Accepted on June 18th, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TGCN.2021.3091812. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto and Paolo Montuschi. ‘‘Sustainable Task Offloading in UAV Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Accepted on Apr. 14, 2021.
    Impact factor 2021: 5.379. Bibtex

  • Amit Samanta, Flavio Esposito, and Tri Nguyen. ‘‘Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Edge-Based IoT Networks with Demand Uncertainty." In IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Accepted on Apr 9th, 2021. doi:10.1109/JIOT.2021.3075681
    JRC Impact factor 2020: 9.936. Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Matteo Flocco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Supporting Sustainable Virtual Network Mutations with Mystique" In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted on Feb 2021. Doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2021.3059647. Bibtex

  • Nabeel Akhtar, Ibrahim Matta, Ali Raza, Leonardo Goratti, Torsten Braun and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Managing Chains of Application Functions over Multi-Technology Edge Networks". In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) special issue on Advanced Management of Softwarized Networks. Accepted on 29-Dec-2020.

  • Flavio Esposito, Maria Mushtaq, Michele Berno, Gianluca Davoli, Davide Borsatti, Walter Cerroni, and Michele Rossi. ‘‘Necklace: An Architecture for Distributed and Robust Service Function Chains with Guarantees". In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), special issue on Advanced Management of Softwarized Networks. Doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.3036926. Accepted on 26-Aug-2020. Bibtex

  • Kevin B. Costa, Felipe S. Dantas Silva, Lucas M. Schneider, Emidio P. Neto, Augusto V. Neto, and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Enhancing Orchestration and Infrastructure Programmability in SDN with NOTORIETY". In IEEE Access. JCR Impact factor: 3.557. Accepted on October 18th, 2020; doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3033486. Bibtex PDF

  • Dmitrii Chemodanov, Prasad Calyam, Flavio Esposito, Ronald McGarvey, Kannappan Palaniappan, and Antonio Pescape’.‘‘A Near Optimal Reliable Orchestration Approach for Geo-Distributed Latency-Sensitive SFCs." In IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Accepted on Mar 15th, 2020. Doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2020.2981630
    SCImago Impact factor 2018: 2.47 Bibtex

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto.
    ‘‘RoPE: An Architecture for Adaptive Data-Driven Routing Prediction at the Edge". In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM). Accepted on Mar 10th, 2020. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.2980899 (TNSM-2019-02711)
    JRC Impact factor 2018: 3.286 Bibtex

  • F. S. Dantas Silva, E. Silva, E. P. Neto, M. Lemos, A. J. Venacio Neto and F. Esposito. ‘‘A Taxonomy of DDoS Attack Mitigation Approaches Featured by SDN Technologies in IoT Scenarios" In MDPI Sensors, Internet of Things, Special Issue Security and Privacy Techniques in IoT Environment. ISSN 1424-8220. May 18th, 2020. Download PDF  [PDF] Impact factor in 2020: 3.031

  • Dmitrii Chemodanov, Flavio Esposito, Prasad Calyam, Andrei Sukhov. ‘‘REBATE: a REpulsive-BAsed Traffic Engineering Protocol for Dynamic Scale-Free Networks." In Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems. Accepted Feb 26th, 2020.
    Impact factor in 2018: 4.639.

  • Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Vasit Sagan, Paheding Sidike, Sean Hartling, Flavio Esposito and Felix B. Fritschic. ‘‘Soybean yield prediction from Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) using multimodal data fusion and deep neural network". In Elsevier Remote Sensing of Environment Journal. Accepted Dec 7th, 2019. Impact factor in 2018: 8.218 Bibtex

  • Waqar Muhammad, Flavio Esposito, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Vasit Sagan and Enrico Bonaiuti. Polly: A Tool for Rapid Data Integration and Analysis in Support of Agricultural Research and Education. In Elsevier Internet of Things Journal. doi: j.iot.2019.100141. Accepted 16 Nov, 2019. Bibtex

  • Farzaneh Abazari, Flavio Esposito, Hassan Takabi, Hamid Hosseinvand and Tommaso Pecorella. ‘‘Teaching Software-Defined Network Security Through Malicious Tenant Detection". In Wiley Internet Technology Letters. Sept 2019. DOI:10.1002/itl2.131.

  • Gabriele Castellano, Flavio Esposito and Fulvio Risso.
    ‘‘A Service-Defined Approach for Orchestration of Heterogeneous Applications in Cloud/Edge Platforms" In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Accepted (TNSM) on 8 Sept, 2019; doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2941639.
    JRC Impact factor 2018: 3.286

  • Maryam Ghasemi, Ibrahim Matta and Flavio Esposito.
    The Effect of (Non-)Competing Brokers on the Quality and Price of Differentiated Internet Services.
    In Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks. Accepted on 12 June, 2019. bibtex Download PDF  [PDF]
    JRC Impact factor 2018: 2.516.

  • Vasit Sagan, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Paheding Sidike, Kevin Eblimit, Kyle T. Peterson, Sean Hartling, Flavio Esposito, Kapil Khanal, Maria Newcomb, Duke Pauli, Rick Ward, Felix Fritschi, Nadia Shakoor and Todd Mockler.
    UAV-Based High Resolution Thermal Imaging for Vegetation Monitoring, and Plant Phenotyping Using ICI 8640 P, FLIR Vue Pro R 640, and thermoMap Cameras.
    In Remote Sensing, 2019, 11(3) 330; doi:10.3390/rs11030330 Bibtex Remote Sensing 2021 Best Paper Award

  • Francesca Nizzi, Tommaso Pecorella, Flavio Esposito, Laura Pierucci and Romano Fantacci.
    IoT Security via Address Shuffling: the Easy Way. In IEEE Internet of Things Journal. doi. 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2892003. Accepted on Jan 10, 2019.
    JRC Impact factor 2018: 5.863.

  • Jianyu Wang, Jianli Pan, Flavio Esposito, Prasad Calyam, Zhicheng Yang and Prasant Mohapatra.
    Edge Cloud Offloading Algorithms: Issues, Methods, and Perspectives. In ACM Computing Surveys. Oct 2018.
    JCR Impact factor 2018: 5.550. Bibtex

  • Dmitrii Chemodanov, Flavio Esposito, Prasad Calyam and Andrei Sukhov
    A Constrained Shortest Path Scheme for Virtual Network Service Management. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted 7 Aug 2018. Mar 2019, Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages: 127-142. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2018.2865204
    JCR Impact factor 2018: 3.286.

  • Charney, Rachel L,, Rebmann, Terri, Esposito, Flavio, Schmid, Kristin and Chung, Sarita. Separated after a Disaster: Trust and Privacy Issues in Sharing Children's Personal Information". In: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. Accepted Oct 2018; doi: 10.1017/dmp.2019.32. Pages: 1-8 Bibtex Download PDF  [PDF]

  • D. Chemodanov, F. Esposito, A. Sukhov, P. Calyam, H. Trinh and Z. Oraibi.
    AGRA: AI-augmented Geographic Routing Approach for IoT-based Incident-Supporting Applications. In. Elsevier International Journal of eScience, Special Issue on Future Generation Computer Systems. Accepted Aug 2017 (to appear)
    JCR Impact factor 2017: 2.430

  • W. Cerroni and F. Esposito.
    Optimizing Live Migration of Multiple Virtual Machines.
    In: IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing. (Accepted May 2016). Vol. 6 Issue: 4 pp:1096-1109. Oct-Dec 2018. [doi] Download PDF  [PDF]

Refereed Workshop Papers

  • O. Okafor, F. Esposito, and T. Pecorella, “EdgeVerse: Multi-User Virtual Reality via Edge Computing and eBPF,” in Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Analytics for Service and Application Management (AnServApp) 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024. Bibtex

  • Kevin Wells, Felipe A. Lopes, Vasit Sagan and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘A Multifaceted Benchmarking of GAN Architectures on Generating Synthetic Satellite Imagery," 2023 IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/AIPR60534.2023.10440718. Bibtex

  • Cristian Zilli, Alessio Sacco, Doriana Monaco, Okwudilichukwu Okafor, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Inferring Visibility of Internet Traffic Matrices Using eXplainable AI." In 3rd International Workshop on Intelligence Provisioning for Network and Service Management in Softwarized Networks (IPSN) in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Seoul, South Korea, May 6–10, 2024. Bibtex

  • Muhammad Zawish, Paul Albert, Flavio Esposito, Steven Davy, and Lizy Abraham, ‘‘Energy-Efficient Uncertainty-Aware Biomass Composition Prediction at the Edge" In proc. of 5th IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshop on Vision for Agriculture (V4A). Seattle, WA. June 17th-June 24th, 2024. Bibtex

  • Stefano Galantino, Andrea Pinto, Flavio Esposito, Antonio Manzalini, and Fulvio Risso. ‘‘Balancing Energy Efficiency and Infrastructure Knowledge in Cloud-to-Edge Task Distribution Systems". In Proc. of ACM EuroSys 1st International Workshop on MetaOS for the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum (MECC 2024). 22-25 April, 2024. Athens, Greece. Bibtex

  • A. Pinto, A. Ashdown, T. Hassan, H. Cheng, F. Esposito, L. Bonati, S. D'Oro, T. Melodia, F. Restuccia. ‘‘Hercules: An Emulation-Based Framework for Transport Layer Measurements over 5G Wireless Networks". In Proc. of The 17th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization (WINTECH’23). Colocated with ACM Mobicom 2023. Madrid, Spain. Accepted in July 2023.

  • Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto and Alexander Clemm. ‘‘NLP4: An Architecture for Intent-Driven Data Plane Programmability." In Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Intent-based Networking at IEEE NetSoft 2022. June 27th 2022. Bibtex

  • L. Pappone, F. Cerasuolo, V. Persico, D. Ciuonzo, A. Pescape´ and F. Esposito, ‘‘Prediction of Mobile-App Network-Video-Traffic Aggregates using Multi-task Deep Learning". In proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Network Intelligence (NI) Colocated with IEEE/IFIP Networking 2022.

  • Andrew Crutcher, Caleb Koch, Kyle Coleman, Jon Patman, Flavio Esposito and Prasad Calyam. Hyperprofile-based Computation Offloading for Mobile Edge Networks. In Proc. of the 4th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (co-located with IEEE MASS). Orlando, Florida, USA, Oct. 22, 2017.

  • S. Mirzaei and F. Esposito.
    An Alloy Verification Model for Consensus-Based Auction Protocols,
    In: International IEEE Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN 2015), In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2015. Download PDF  [PDF] Check also the BU Alloy page.

  • A.M. Vegni, and F. Esposito.
    A Speed-based Vertical Handover Algorithm for VANET.
    In: Proc. of 7th Intl. Workshop on Intelligent Transportation (WIT 2010), March 2010.
    Download PDF  [Tech Report].

  • F. Esposito, A.M. Vegni, I. Matta and A. Neri.
    On Modeling Speed-Based Vertical Handovers in Vehicular Networks.
    In: IEEE Workshop on Seamless Wireless Mobility (SWiM) at GLOBECOM, Dec 2010.

  • A. Vegni and F. Esposito,
    Location Aware Mobility Assisted Services for Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies.
    In: Proc. of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Wireless Sensing, Local Positioning and RFID (IMWS 09), Cavtat, Croatia, Sept. 2009.

  • G. Ferrari Aggradi, F. Esposito and I. Matta.
    Supporting Predicate Routing in DTN over MANET.
    In: Proceedings of the third ACM MOBICOM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS ’08), San Francisco, CA, Sept. 2008.

  • D. Macagnano, G. Destino, F. Esposito and G. Abreu.
    MAC Performances for Localization and Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks.
    Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication, pp.297-302, Hannover, Germany, 22-22 March 2007.

Referred Demos and Posters

  • J. A. Joby, P. Sikorski, T. Sultan, H. Akbarpour, F. Esposito, and M. Babaiasl, ‘‘EMG-TransNN-MHA: A Transformer-Based Model for Enhanced Motor Intent Recognition in Assistive Robotics," in Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2024. Bibtex

  • E. Paolini, L. Valcarenghi, N. Andriolli, L. Maggiani, and F. Esposito, ‘‘Enabling Lightweight Federated Learning in NextG Wireless Networks," in 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2024, pp. 304-306, doi: 10.1109/NetSoft60951.2024.10588916. Bibtex

  • A. Pinto, T. B. Hassan, F. Restuccia and F. Esposito, ‘‘Poster: Transport-Aware Resource Block Allocation in 5G Slicing," 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Saint Louis, MO, USA, 2024, pp. 322-323, doi: 10.1109/NetSoft60951.2024.10588902. Bibtex

  • Andrea Pinto, Giuseppe Santaromita, Claudio Fiandrino, Domenico Giustiniano, and Flavio Esposito. 2022. Experimenting with localization management functions in 5G core networks. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 806–807. https:doi.org10.11453495243.3558762 Bibtex

  • Lorenzo Pappone, Valerio Persico, Domenico Ciuonzo, Antonio Pescape’ and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Poster: Prediction of Mobile-app Network Traffic Using Multitask Deep Learning". ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2021. Virtual event. Poster Extended Abstract

  • Valeria Turina, Zongshun Zhang, Flavio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta. ‘‘Poster: Combining Split and Federated Architectures for Efficiency and Privacy in Deep Learning". In Proc. of the ACM 16th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2020). Poster Bibtex

  • Roberto Amoroso, Flavio Esposito, and Maria Luisa Merani. ‘‘Poster: Estimation of Traffic Matrices via Super-resolution and Federated Learning". In Proc. of the ACM 16th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2020). Best Poster Award

  • Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Poster: A Distributed Reinforcement Learning Approach forEnergy and Congestion-Aware Edge Networks" In Proc. of the ACM 16th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2020).

  • Matthew Gottsacker, Steven R. Gomez, Rick Skowyra and Flavio Esposito. Toward Effective Visualization of Network Identifier Bindings in a Software-Defined Network. Poster at ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2018). Oct 31 - Nov 2nd, Boston, MA, USA.

  • Alessndro Sangiorgi, Flavio Esposito Jenna Gorlewicz and Giovanni Schembra. ‘‘Demo: Propelling Haptic Devices into the Mobile World to Advance K-12 STEM Learning". In Twentieth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2019). July 2-5, 2019. Catania, Italy. Bibtex

  • F. Esposito, Y. Wang, I. Matta and J. Day.
    Dynamic Layer Instantiation as a Service.
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’13), Lombard, IL, 2-5 April, 2013. Demo

  • G. Ferrari Aggradi, F. Esposito and I. Matta.
    Supporting Predicate Routing in DTN over MANET.
    In: Proceedings of the third ACM MOBICOM Workshop on Challenged networks (CHANTS ’08), San Francisco, CA, Sept. 2008. Demo

  • F.Esposito , F. Chiti, J. Sun, S. Hosio and R. Fantacci,
    Non-Homogeneous Connectivity Management for GPRS and Bluetooth Enabled Networks.
    MUM 2005 International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Dec 2005. Poster.

Editorials and Technical Reports

  • Zongshun Zhang, Andrea Pinto, Valeria Turina, Flavio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta
    ‘‘Privacy and Efficiency of Communications in Federated Split Learning" [Arxiv Technical Report] Jan 7th, 2023.

  • John Pasquesi, Flavio Esposito, Gianluca Davoli and Jenna Gorlewicz.
    ‘‘Exploring Vibration-Defined Networking" [Arxiv Technical Report]

  • Gabriele Castellano, Flavio Esposito and Fulvio Risso,
    “A Distributed Architecture for Edge Service Orchestration with Guarantees”. [Arxiv Technical Report]

  • Andrew Crutcher, Caleb Koch, Kyle Coleman, Jon Patman, Flavio Esposito and Prasad Calyam,
    “Hyperprofile-based Computation Offloading for Mobile Edge Networks” [Arxiv Technical Report].

  • Flavio Esposito, Catena: A Distributed Architecture for Robust Service Function Chain Instantiation with Guarantees. In IEEE Softwarization (July 2017), an IEEE Software Defined Networking (SDN) Newsletter Article.

  • Y. Wang, I. Matta, F. Esposito and J. Day.
    Introducing ProtoRINA: A Prototype for Programming Recursive-Networking Policies.
    Editorial Note at ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (July 2014 Issue of CCR).
    Download PDF  [PDF].

  • Y. Wang, F. Esposito, I. Matta and J. Day
    RINA: An Architecture for Policy-Based Dynamic Service Management.
    Nov 2013. Computer Science Department, Boston University.
    Download PDF  [Technical Report BUCS-TR-2013-014].

  • Y. Wang, F. Esposito, I. Matta and J. Day,
    Recursive InterNetworking Architecture (RINA) Boston University Prototype Programming Manual.
    Nov 2013. Computer Science Department, Boston University.
    Download PDF  [Technical Report BUCS-TR-2013-013].

  • F. Esposito and G. Ferrari Aggradi,
    Testbed for Predicate Routing in DTN over MANET - User Manual.
    Technical Report. Computer Science Department, Boston University. Sept. 2008.
    Download PDF  [PDF].

Book Chapters

  • F. Esposito and Donato Di Paola.
    Policy-Based Distributed Spectrum Allocation.
    In: “Cognitive Vehicular Networks”, Editors, D.P. Agrawal and A.M. Vegni
    CRC Taylor & Francis Group [PDF].

Ph.D. Thesis

  • F. Esposito.
    A Policy-based Architecture for Virtual Network Embedding.
    PhD thesis. Sept. 2013. Computer Science Department, Boston University.